Research Interests

• Palaeoclimatolgy
• Geosciences
• Sedimentology
• Quaternary environments
• Palaeolimnology
• Climate variability
• Sedimentary records
• Atmospheric sciences
• Global change
• Palaeontology
• Geochemistry

Awards

• 2016 Award for the Outstanding Poster Presentation in the Community ecology for the 21st century, 17-19October, Evora(Portugal). CIBIO-InBIO.
• 2010 Outstanding PhD Award, University of Barcelona (2010-2011).
• 2010 “Doctor Europaeus” Mention, University of Barcelona (2010-2011).

Active Projects

• 2018-2019 FLODES2K – Floods and modes of climate variability: Interactions and impacts in the North Atlantic-European sector during the last two millennia. Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) – Marie Curie Cofund programme. PI: Dr. Armand Hernández
• 2017-2019 PALEOMODES – Holocene climate and ecological impacts of the East Atlantic pattern (EA) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) interplay in southwestern Atlantic Europe. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO). PI: Dr Santiago Giralt.
• 2017-2019 MEDLANT – Depositional and geochemical dynamics of MEDiterranean Watershed-LAke Systems (WLS) during the ANThropocene: disentangling human and climate forcings. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO). PI: Dr Blas Valero-Garcés.

Past Projects

• 2015-2017 IBERMOD- Influence of Atmospheric Circulation Modes over western Iberia during the last millennium. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) – Marie Curie Cofund programme. PI: Dr Armand Hernández.
• 2014-2016 RAPIDNAO – The NAO reconstruction during the Holocene Rapid Climate Change periods.Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO). PI: Dr Alberto Sáez.
• 2013-2015 QSECA – Drought quantification and evolution on Iberian Peninsula: past, present and future. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). PI:Dr Célia Gouveia.
• 2013-2015 HOLOCHILL – Holocene Global Change from the Tropics to the Mediterranean.Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO). PI: Prof. Blas Valero-Garcés.
• 2012-2014 HOLONAO – NAO variability during the Late Holocene based on Azores Island lake cores and climate instrumental data. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) – Marie Curie Cofund programme. PI: Dr Armand Hernández.
• 2011-2013 PALEONAO – The role of NAO in Western Europe climate variability during the Late Glacial and Holocene based on Iberian and Azores Island lake cores and climate instrumental data.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN). PI: Dr Santiago Giralt.
• 2009-2010 CENITE: VISION CO2 – Procesos de interacción roca-fuido en sistemas petroleros siliciclásticos y carbonáticos: tipos de fuidos, interacción y evolución.REPSOL-YPF.PI: Prof. Juan José Pueyo
• 2008-2010 GEOBILA – High-resolution paleoclimatic reconstruction from the Last Glacial Maximum in Andean and South Pacific lakes based on geochemical and biological proxies. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN). PI: Dr Alberto Sáez.
• 2004-2007 LAVOLTER – The record of extreme events in lake sediments in volcanic-hydrotermal settings.Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT). PI: Dr Santiago Giralt.
• 2004-2005 Estratigrafía de cementos y diagénsis en carbonatos mexicanos, Coahuila y Golfo de Mexico: Evolución de fluidos e implicaciones en la distribución de porosidad. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). PI: Dr. Ma Concepción Taberner.
• 2004-2005 Estudio estratigráfico y sedimentológico de la Formación Hawaz y su relación con la Formación Mamuniyat, Cuenca del Murzuq, Libia. REPSOL-REMSA. PI: Prof Mariano Marzo.
• 2003-2004 Stratigraphic and petrographic study of volcanic-ash horizons of the Hawaz Formation in the Gargaf area (Libya).REPSOL-REMSA. PI: Prof. Mariano Marzo.

Other Activities

Organization of R+D activities

• 2017 Convener and chair of the session “Past atmospheric variability inferred from paleoclimate proxies” of the AGU fall meeting 2017, from 11th to 15th December, 2017.
• 2017 Convener and chair of the session “Palaeoclimate proxies integrating large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns” of the EGU General Assembly 2017, from the 23rd to 28th April, 2017.
• 2016 Convener and chair of the session “Connecting palaeoclimate proxies to large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns” of the AGU fall meeting 2016, from 12th to 16th December, 2016.

Reviewer activities

• Reviewer for the international indexed journals: Climate Dynamics, Global Change Biology, Water, Atmosphere, Swiss Journal of Geosciences, Antarctic Sciences, Quaternary International, Remote Sensing.
• Reviewer for international conferences: AGU fall meeting, EGU General Assembly.
• Reviewer for the Geological Survey of Ireland calls for research projects, since December 2015.
• OSPA judge in AGU fall meeting

Member of dissertation commitees

• Member of the PhD dissertation committee of Margarita Jambrina Enriquez (University of Salamanca, Spain): «The Sanabria Lake record: climate and environmental variability in the NW lberian Peninsula for the last 26000 years», 22ndMay 2015.
• Member of the PhD dissertation committee of NúriaCañellasBoltà (University of Barcelona, Spain): “Vegetation dynamics in relation to climate changes, geological processes and human impact of Easter Island since the Last Glacial. Paleoecological study of sediments from Lake Raraku”, 1stApril 2014.

Outreach

• 2011 Hernández A. (2011). La carrera investigadora: ayudas, becas y contratos. III Taller de Investigación científica. A Coruña. Asociación de investigadores, técnicos y tecnólogos Precarios Galicia /Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña (Spain). 20/11/2011
• 2011 Hernández A. (2011). El Clima de la Tierra: de dónde venimos y hacia dónde vamos. Encontros Naturalistas. Grupo Naturalista Hábitat. A Coruña (Spain). 27/05/2011.
• 2011 Hernández A. (2011). El Clima de la Tierra: de dónde venimos y hacia dónde vamos. II tertulia científica. A Coruña. Asociación de investigadores, técnicos y tecnólogos Precarios Galicia/FNAC. A Coruña (Spain). 27/01/2011.
• Scientific social media sites
• Interviews for newspapers